Sir Alfred Hitchcock was born on this day (13th August) in 1899 in Leytonstone, London. He directed more than fifty feature films and is regarded as greatest British filmmaker. Daily Telegraph once…
Ellie Goulding is a 24 year old British singer, who became the winner of Sound of 2010, BBC’s annual poll of music critics and industry figures that was established in 2003 to…
Hall Pass is an American comedy produced and directed by the Farrelly brothers, who are most famous for making There’s Something About Mary; Dumb and Dumber and Me, Myself & Irene. Hall…
Luka Marčetič is Slovenian director, actor and screenwriter, most famous for his web series Dan ljubezni (The Day of Love). The series, which premiered in November 2009 and lasted till December 2010,…
Brands & Films has been recently featured in a piece on product placement on ABC News and in a ‘5 things’ section on Slovenian blog Pepermint. ABC News ran a story about…
In 1995 BMW made history with its deal with the producers of James Bond movies. It was a three-movie deal which gave BMW a chance to include its car models in GoldenEye,…
Sergio Tacchini is a former Italian tennis player and famous Italian fashion designer of sportswear. In 1966 he set up a company, named after him, to produce and distribute sports apparel and…
Intervju z Luko Marčetičem je prva objava na Brands&Films v slovenščini. Za to sem se odločil, ker je tematika najinega pogovora vezana izključno na Slovenijo. V kratkem sledi še objava v angleščini,…
Sasha Vujacic is Slovenian basketball player, currently with the New Jersey Nets, but is (unfortunately) probably better known as Maria Sharapova‘s fiancé. On July 2, Sharapova lost the final match of this…
A couple of weeks ago all major news agencies had run a story about product placement in the Chinese propaganda movie Beginning of the Great Revival. Apparently in one scene, the actor…
A few weeks ago I watched an interesting movie HappyThankYouMorePlease which tells the story of a group of young New Yorkers, struggling to balance love, friendship, and their approaching adulthoods. One of…
Recently I’ve watched another mediocre movie, some sort of buddy-buddy comedy with annoying Zach Galifianakis and uninterested Robert Downey Jr. The movie had its usual dose of product placement, with one that…
On 13th of May 2011 Clark Kent became Superman. Actually, it was the day when The CW Television Network aired the final episode of the popular TV series Smallville. After 10 seasons/years…
Drive Angry is another in line of Nicolas Cage movies that falls in the category of failed attempts to get some success at the box office or on the other hand show…
The premise of the Limitless is quite interesting: what would happen if you’d take a drug (called NZT) that enhances the brain power and allows the person to use 100% of his…